Greece

Harvard University, one of the world's most prestigious academic institutions, has reportedly been mulling how to create a course devoted to the refugee crisis which has hit Europe in the last decade. The proposed course would be offered in close partnership...

Greek football giants Olympiacos are hosting a conference in partnership with Harvard University promoting football’s social responsibility, particularly in relation to refugees and other vulnerable groups. The conference, titled ‘Reinforcing, Crossing, and Transcending Borders: Soccer in a Globalized World’ will take...

Many child refugees in Greece are left with no choice other than to sell sex in order to pay their way to Europe, says a recent report by Harvard University. In this past week alone, roughly 9,000 refugees were...

The Cultural Politics Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University will honor the Greek culture by presenting the work of some of its most prominent figures in an event to be held on December 15 at...

Professor John Kazazis, the Head of the Center for Greek Language at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has committed suicide by hanging at the age of 74. Kazazis' body was discovered on Tuesday in an office basement in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki....

The newly established University of West Attica (UNIWA), headquartered near the iconic archaeological site of Plato's Academy in Athens, is setting early post-pandemic goals with an emphasis on extroversy, research and innovation as it plans to attract more students...

The Times Higher Education's global league table of universities released its international rankings placing the University of Oxford in the top position, pushing the California Institute of Technology into second place. Greek universities lagged behind the 301st position, with the...

Two law students from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) claimed the first spot in one of the categories of the World Universities Debating Championships, January 3, in the city of Thessaloniki. The victorious team composed by speakers Maria Rousi and Thodoris...

Philippos-Ilarion Sytilidis, a student from Thessaloniki, northern Greece has received a full scholarship to attend Harvard University, amounting to 69,000 dollars per year for four years. Philippos, who is currently in his last year of high school, will major...

  The vast hype surrounding the newly-excavated Amphipolis tomb has academics scrambling to their Greek histories in search of all possible candidates who could be resting within the tomb's sealed third chamber. But perhaps that mystery was solved over 70 years ago. A 1941 research paper sponsored...

The Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning Arsakeia-Tositseia Schools said it's going to enter into a collaboration with the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. A memorandum of understanding agreement was signed by the President of the...

ATHENS – If old soldiers never die but just fade away, it seems that politicians who lose office slide into college teaching positions. Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, whose two-year reign ended ignominiously in 2011 when he was...

A plan to wipe out 50 percent of Greece’s debt to international lenders is not enough to keep the economy from collapsing and eventually forcing Greece to leave the Eurozone, the 17-country institution of members using the euro as...

The “Times Higher Education World University Rankings” ranked the University of Crete 276th in the annual supplement compiled by UK newspaper The Times listing the world’s top 400 universities. The University of Crete was the only Greek participant in the...

Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Michigan State University Gerasimos Karampatsos, will be awarded with an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Chemistry of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.). The event will take place on Wednesday, the 13thof...